York University researchers have identified a cell-signalling process that stimulates blood vessel growth and may help break the cycle of diabetes by making it easier for patients to exercise. Professor Tara Haas (right) and colleagues in York’s Muscle Health Research Centre studied stimuli that can cause blood vessels in muscle to grow. Their research aims […]
York film Professor Colleen Wagner’s current project, “Theatre of the Wounded”, places women at the centre of heroic myths, a space they have not traditionally occupied. Wagner's creative undertaking, which is funded by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, seeks to give women and girls a new role and voice, something that no […]
John Batasar is taking part in a groundbreaking York University study to determine the health and fitness effects of off-road motorcycle & all-terrain vehicle (ATV) riding, reported The Globe and Mail July 2. The York research is the first comprehensive fitness probe of recreational off-roaders. The final phase of the three-year, three-part study is still under […]